Windows Azure - Connect to SQL Azure

We are now are ready with our SQL Azure
database server and database. So we can proceed with connecting with the
database. We can use our ADO.NET Connection class to connect to the database.

The steps involved here are:

Get the Database Server Name

Connect using SqlConnection class

The steps are following.

Get the Database Server Name

Sign in to the windows azure portal and click on the Database item from the left
pane.

Then expand the subscriptions item and select the database server name. From the
right hand side properties window, you can get the Fully qualified DNS Name of
the server as shown in the figure below.

Copy your server name. Now open Visual Studio and create a new Azure project and
add a web role into it.

Add a SqlDataSource component into it from the toolbox. In the properties window
of the control, click on the ConnectionString property. From the drop down list
select New Connection. You will be prompted with the following dialog.

Select Microsoft SQL Server from the list above and click continue. Now the Add
Connection dialog will appear as shown below.

Enter the following

SQL Azure Server Name

User Name

Password

(Remember to check the Use SQL Server
Authentication check box)

Now select the database we created and press Test Connection button. If you get
the succeeded message box, you have a valid SQL Azure connection. Good Job!

Now press OK on the Add Connection dialog and from the properties window, you
can collect the connection string as shown below.

Connect using SqlConnection class

Now we have the valid connection string, we can try connecting through code.

Open the code view of Default.aspx from the web role project. Add the following
code into it. (Resolve the namespaces)